Your old leather choppers are pretty sweet, but you’ve about had it with snide comments in the lift line. Lucky for you, Ibex is making their new Loden Mittens from 18.5 micron Merino wool and adding a layer of Pittards leather across the palm. You get the same comfy wool/leather combo, but instead of being “crusty” you get to be “hippy.”

When the campsite takes away your flare gun—but you keep getting lost on your way to the bathroom at night—just strap an ACR Firefly 3 to your chest before heading out. This high intensity Xenon strobe is visible for up to two miles in every direction and it’ll run for 8 hours. Mostly it’s used for marine rescues as a manual alternative to strobes that automatically go off when they hit the water, but a handful of backpackers like to bring it for piece of mind. Don’t forget to replace the batteries after you wear the Firefly 3 out for New Year’s.

When the smoke clears and a nuclear winter replaces this El Niño year, you’ll be one step ahead in the battle for fresh water with your Unbreakable No-Battery Flashlight. While your friends suffer attacks from mutant rats at night, you’ll be able to spot and fire your slingshot at them with this light’s 6-foot radius from 30-feet away. Between attacks just shake it for 30 seconds for 5 more minutes of light. It works for slumber parties, too.

Reminders to pickup toilet paper sound so much cooler when they’re said in a robot voice. The Nixon Dictator Watch lets you record reminders and then play them back, it’s also good for blackmail. With 3.5 minutes of recording time the only thing you’ll need to remember is to listen to your watch before you go home.

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SmartWool has ordered their brainy sheep to begin producing winter hats, helmet liners, and even visor beanies. They use their same brand of chlorine shocked Merino wool for a supposedly soft feel though they’re still a little rough on your forehead. I guess that’s okay—as long as their hats don’t start smelling like their socks.

Just because you can carry a pound of weed around Colorado doesn’t mean it’s a lawless land like something out of Mad Max. Four renegade snowboarders are facing fines of $1000 each for ducking ropes at A-Basin to ride to the resort’s base instead of taking the Gondi down. The four snowboarders are between 18 and 20 years old—they’ll probably just have to sell a little weed to cover the fines.

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The McNett Frontier Emergency Water Filter System is a straw that turns any stream or stagnant cesspool into a refreshing beverage. McNett makes it as a backup, though a handful of Micropur tablets would get the job done without forcing you to suck water out of the stream and spit it into your Nalgene. Save the Frontier for cocktail parties when your friends make fruity drinks in coconuts.

Just before his run in the NYC Marathon, Lance Armstrong told ESPN [via Dirtpedaler] that he was setting his sights on the Leadville 100—a high-altitude mountain bike race in Colorado. It must be next to impossible for this guy to turn off his need for high-level competition. When he’s super old, he’ll probably enter model airplanes competitions or something. At least he’s not giving motivational speeches.

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Anyone who struggles getting their hands on their ski grips would do well to start skiing without poles. However, The Royal Shaft feels that getting your hands on your grips is a big enough problem that they’ve addressed it with the “easy in” grips that are always open to put your hand through. Maybe it’s time to look at Hawaii vacations instead of going to Vail for a week.

Deeluxe snowboard boots gives BOA lovers an alternative to the BOA Focus system. While Deluxe offers BOA boots, they also make Section lacing which uses two pulls to tighten over the top of your foot and then another around your ankle. Deeluxe also uses Scholler fabrics to build their high end boots which brings some sick tech to the market.

Mount the Brunton ADC Wind on top of your hat and your friends will all be able to read off the temp, altitude, and current wind chill. This $70 gadget stores wind and temp data for 24 hours so you can try to predict the weather. Good luck figuring out how fast a ‘knot’ is.

A sled headlight is questionable, but a taillight is beyond sanity. How are you supposed to be avoiding detection when you sneak onto the ski hill after dark when you have the CherryMax Sled Light flashing away? Who are these people sledding down roads in danger of a car overtaking them?